Why I don't like to group

Troy · #1 08-29-2010, 07:06 PM

Spent 7 hours playing today and gained 1 yellow total, half of which I gained solo before I found any groups. Dungeons = too dangerous to bother with unless you know your group members and the dungeon very well.

Anaiyah · #2 08-29-2010, 07:22 PM

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Spent 7 hours playing today and gained 1 yellow total, half of which I gained solo before I found any groups. Dungeons = too dangerous to bother with unless you know your group members and the dungeon very well.

I agree completely.

At this rate this server is going to turn into even more of a clusterfrak of solo classes. I myself am utterly guilty of soloing my way to 50 because group xp is NEVER even comparable. Even in a great group chain pulling a decent solo camp will gain far more xp. Makes no sense.

fugazi · #3 08-29-2010, 07:34 PM

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I agree completely.

At this rate this server is going to turn into even more of a clusterfrak of solo classes. I myself am utterly guilty of soloing my way to 50 because group xp is NEVER even comparable. Even in a great group chain pulling a decent solo camp will gain far more xp. Makes no sense.

As much as I hate to agree with you on this, you're right. I can't say I've leveled one character very high yet, but grouping past 2 seems like a waste most of the time. The amount of kills needed to get the same xp when soloing or duoing just seems impossible most of the time. There just ain't a lot of mobs around in most places or otherwise require too much time to pull to cause a gap between grouping and soloing.

A good fix would be to give groups of 4 or more a bit of an xp bonus. Everyone solo's >>

Bigtime · #4 08-29-2010, 07:41 PM

If all you want to do is solo why not play a single player game?

PunkrawkBbob · #5 08-29-2010, 07:43 PM

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If all you want to do is solo why not play a single player game?

I agree with Bigtime entirely. The point of the group isn't to be the fastest route to 50, but it is definitely a hell of a lot more fun. Plus you get to meet people who are quality who you can be in a guild with and do higher end raids. Good luck getting experience in group situations for raids if all you do is solo all the way to 50.

valorborn · #6 08-29-2010, 07:52 PM

I really love grouping but I'm having trouble finding groups in CB at least. I have been on for about 8 hours today and have yet to find a group 12+ in CB to join. I have a 7 paladin but finding groups with him as been real hit or miss. When Tiff can play it'll be different though as we can just grab whoever is available as there's been a lot of people LFG today just not enough healers.

And that is really compounded by the fact that there are a lot of mages and Plvers that frequent CB.

I did check out BB on my erudite and it only had about 6 people in it, none of which seemed to be grouping.

If the pets where the old school pets it would be better for low leveling grouping I think, all we really need are more people rolling clerics/druids to fill out the tanks/dps who are LFG.

Another issue with people soloing is that they end up training a lot. I've never trained the zone as I always try to gate, IMO its safer as it is faster, but a lot of the soloers pull to odd places, or even just train groups to clear the camp.

Iceyhot · #7 08-29-2010, 08:03 PM

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/edit...rs_letter.html

thoughts?

eqdruid76 · #8 08-29-2010, 08:38 PM

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I agree with Bigtime entirely. The point of the group isn't to get any experience at all, but it is definitely a hell of a lot more pointless. Plus you get to meet people who absolutely suck who you can be in a guild with and fail consistently at higher end raids. Good luck pressing 3 buttons for raids if all you do is solo all the way to 50.

Fixed, utterly.

alexandervaccaro · #9 08-29-2010, 08:44 PM

does project 1999 have group exp bonus?

Reiker · #10 08-29-2010, 09:33 PM

When I was leveling my mage, I used to group with pretty much the same people from 30+, guys that really knew what they were doing. The group exp blew away what I could do solo, even 40+ (hell, especially 40+). Sometimes none of our crew would be on and I'd solo at the best exp spot in the game and be sad at the slow exp rate compared to our normal group.

RIP Emo Kids.

tldr: group exp is fine, find good players that can hold those tough camps.